skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These articles aren't painting the condemning picture I think you are thinking they do.

If someone becomes president, and a foreign government is already falling apart, and you talk about options and what might become the new government, does that automatically make it your fault? The Shah wasn't a saint, and kind of created the situation.

If you want to place blame for Iran, it might need to go further back to Eisenhower and the Coup that put the Shah in power. The US actually overthrew a democratic country, to put the Shaw, a monarch back into power.

From there forward, every president had their hand in kicking Iran. Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon.

They were all involved. Why lay it at Carters feet?

Or go further back. The West, after WW2, purposely split up the Middle East in a way to keep it in Chaos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

"The two diplomats' pencils divided the map of one of the most volatile regions in the world into states that cut through ethnic and religious communities."
> Netanyahu is a hard case. Here is what Aluf Benn wrote in Haaretz recently:

Maybe. Haaretz is on the Israeli left, and extremely critical of Netanyahu. That doesn't necessarily mean this is wrong - but it's like citing Fox's critique of Biden's motivations, or MSNBC's critique of Trump's motivations, as authoritative fact.

Even if what he's writing is true - this is probably a "new" motivation and not some underlying philosophy, IMO (unlike, say, Smotrich). Netanyahu has been in power for many years, and the most common criticism is that he doesn't actually do enough - he straddles the fence, refusing to commit to either (say) destroying Hamas or working with the PA - preferring to do as little as possible and play all angles, to stay in power. In our current situation you see a similar thing play out - he's refused to offer a "day after" plan for Gaza for a long time, and is certainly not publicly agreeing with the extremists who want to resettle Gaza - but also still working with them. Fence sitting, in other words.

That's why I believe he is more likely motivated by "staying in power" without actually having any underlying desire to make "greater Israel".

(Oh and I just now actually looked at the article, and it seems to support what I'm saying - that this is new behavior for Netanyahu, who was always considered risk-averse. I hope the article is wrong and Netanyahu is just fence-sitting as usual, for everyone's sake.)

> Israel has robust population growth. This is a long-term project. Similar to the settlements in the West Bank that stated 50 years ago and may finally get most of the West Bank annexed to Israel in the next four year.

I don't think that will happen, because most Israelis do not want to actually rule a people that hates them in an actual apartheid situation.

I sincerely hope I'm right. Netanyahu is certainly taking steps towards dictatorship, so who knows? Israel's democracy is relatively strong and robust, and I don't think the populace will let democracy fall, but again, who knows?

> I think I was judgement free. You are inferring that it is mark against Israel I am talking about geopolitical realities.

> If Israel's population is growing while both Syria and Lebanon are stagnant or shrinking and they are also failed/fragile states, it will be easy to expand into them and sustain that expansion.

Fair enough, I wasn't sure you were implying something negative. Still, actually expanding into Syria et all is completely outside the bounds of any normal discourse in Israel. I doubt you'd get even 5% of Israelis wanting to expand the borders significantly for growth reasons, only solidify borders for security reasons.
Cropping the centre of a fisheye photo will look the same as a normal or telephoto lens if they are taken at the same distance (the crop will have less resolution of course)
Small nitpick, the domain name used for a ATProto identity is decoupled from the server that hosts that users data. A username is established on ATProto by creating a TXT record of the users DID (essentially a public key). This is not identical to ActivityPub, because the users data is hosted / managed by the server that the A/AAAA record points to. ATProto users can migrate their data from server to server while maintaining the same username. ActivityPub users cannot.

Also, Bluesky is a centralized view of the data in the decentralized ATProto network. This means you will never end up having the problem where searching for a user on one instance will not show up because they are on another instance that they have not federated with. There are obviously tradeoffs with this, but IMO they do seem sensible. The nice thing about Bluesky is not that it is decentralized (it's not), it's that the data that it let's users interface with is decentralized, and if something goes south with Bluesky, another application can be built on the same data and users can migrate without starting from square one.
Successor or fork?

I am not sure about the details, but I seem to remember it was not a very amicable fork.
I loved One Must Fall, but it's not that and it was a lot more similar to FX fighter, but older and more grainy. I don't think I ever actually found out what it was.
That's HCL Notes, now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Notes
Ask HN: Will AI take over front end development in 2025?
I don't know how long you've been in the space, so forgive me if I seem condescending. Twitter and Facebook used to be extremely open and encouraging to developers. That's how they gained prominence, by allowing... nay, incentivizing developers to use their platform. Once they hit critical mass, that was all unceremoniously ripped away.

Assuming a for-profit venture like Bluesky gains critical mass, it will absolutely happen again.
I went from disposables to a refillable one as part of my cutting down.

Being able to mix my own liquid meant I could slowly reduce my nicotine levels, whilst maintaining the habit of smoking, making it easier to finally come off it at the end.

Good luck!
It gets worse. U2F keys were stateless, the site key pair was stored by the site (encrypted to, and by, the u2f key). Now, passkeys are stored in the device, and, you guessed it - they have a limited number of slots.

The fido2 situation is really bad.
So you cherry pick one real-world observation, try to refute it and it makes the rest wonderland? EU is doing super great because you just scentifically proved that Barcelona can't be as bad as LA?
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Former UAL Pilot, Talks about Korean Flight Training (2014)
Mostly by folks that keep the mindset Android is GNU/Linux, instead of finally getting the point it is a managed OS that happens to use the Linux kernel as implementation detail.
GPS Spoofing Attacks Are Dangerously Misleading Airliners
The same sources Wikipedia gets its information from. You can not even contribute to Wikipedia without providing outside sources, I think, which are usually websites or books
What the Left Refused to Understand About Women's Sports
Forget jeansgate–Magnus Carlsen's deal with Saudi Arabia is the real story
The shorter answer is that it's your data, but it's their service. If you want privacy, you should use your own service.

And for how cheap and trivial syncing photos is, any mandatory or exclusive integration of services between app/platform/device vendors needs to be scrutinized heavily by the FTC.
It's interesting to me that you consider servicing API requests to not be a service.
This is an excellent piece of software - use it almost every day. It’s the best way to run basically any operating system from the pre-USB era. It includes a very good emulation of the IBM PC _jr_, a whole host of other ISA, VESA Local Bus, MCA, and PCI based machines. It also has CPU modes good enough to run troublesome programs that don’t function in DOSBox or dosemu2.
How to Protect Any Upstream Service with Operational Authentication
I sometimes use neural nets for obscure compound questions (with a so so efficiency), but I can't imagine using NN in place of Wikipedia. I go to Wikipedia to find factual information (by factual I don't mean guaranteed, I mean hard data - years, names, models etc.). How can anyone rely on a random text generator to get factual data?
Blink seems to be closer to qemu-user or box86/box64[0].

0. https://box86.org/
https://archive.is/Mdxbt
Pro-Israel, as far as the government is, is inherently an anti-two-state-solution position. How can there be peace with 2-3 million stateless people who have no way to defend themselves against a hostile nation?

You're talking about what Palestinians inherently "want", but that's not really related to peace. Peace exists when nations can deter each other. The USSR and the USA had peace despite each "wanting" to destroy the other because they had MAAD. Without that, imagine the carnage? It might have looked like what we see today in Gaza...

I agree with you, that I wish pro-either-country was a pro-peace position. Ultimately it will have to become one in Israel for the situation to change. No matter what Palestinians want, they don't have the firepower to change the calculus.
It will never happen because maybe the EU is faaaaar more diverse than the US? Yes there were/are more than one ethnic group, but it's always been massively dominated by Anglo-Americans, culturally as politically.
A lot of the motivation comes from government regulations too. Right now this is mostly in banking, but social media and porn regs are coming too.
This. In other words, password managers have all the benefits and none of the drawbacks of passkeys. And passkeys require a password manager anyway, so why are we trying to switch?
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I am one of these people that think its overreach.

People find some value in this product. Enough so they're buying it even though its expensive and potentially hazardous to their health. All the problems associated with that problem should be managed. We should have technology to manage the waste. It's an engineering problem and I'd much rather prefer that we engineer technology to serve what people want than try to engineer humans to adapt to limitations of our technology.

The most absurd manifestation of this attitude is an image heating people vs heating spaces and tries to unironically argue that people should prefer to live in cold spaces and just adapt with things like cozy furniture, warm clothes, hot drinks and local heating. Real dystopian stuff to anyone who has lived like this.

https://sketchplanations.com/heating-people-heating-spaces
That's slick! I wonder what sorts of jobs end up being cost effective on it. Like, how much does the media used to print the example job in the video cost? There's no clue on the website as to the cost of the media, so I'm guessing you have to have a pretty good reason to need this particular technology (simply speed?)
Jeansgate discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527572
Revolutionizing Test Automation: A New Era for QA Leaders
Apologies, I read your comment like you'd written it, not like you've retro-actively decided you'd written it.
While had a job, home office:

Wake up, prepare breakfast, prepare for work (read emails), calisthenics, breakfast, start working.

After left job:

Flight ticket to Nepal, 6.30am hikes in Himalayas daily, flight to Thailand, activities early morning, flight to Philippines, diving early morning, etc etc

My recommendation: think about what makes you happy, keeps excited, develops your skills/knowledge, etc and do it, every day, from early morning. Don't overthink it. Don't copy others.

And drink water.
I agree with your statement in general terms. But you can't enter into the industry as a startup, to get stuck in the general crud of status-quo. You are supposed to be disrupting things, right?

The same applies to insurance. You can't take crap contracts that don't work for you, so maybe create a contract of your own based on 1st principles and going back to the definition of insurance.
I find Thomas Nagel's "what it is like to be" [1] concept fascinating. I have spent quite some time trying to imagine what it is like to be a rock. Mind you, not from the perspective of a human ("A rock will probably experience time very quickly, because it erodes, etc. etc"), but from the perspective of the rock itself. That is, it has no senses, no memory, no capabilities for abstraction, no consciousness.

This ruminating has led me to believe that time and logic are human concepts, and are not as universal as is commonly believed. With recent insights into neural networks, I wouldn't even be surprised if the laws of physics follow from the way our brains are wired, instead of the other way around. Perhaps this is simply a modern take on idealism or realism, but I can't find a strand of philosophy with which I feel at home.

Obviously, there is a bootstrapping problem with trying to reason from something that cannot reason. And I am well aware that my brain must exist in some form of reality. To conclusively prove some apparatus for that is way out of the scope of science. Scientifically there is probably very little to learn from this anyway, apart from opening one's mind to some alternative possibilities. It's a fun exercise, though.

However, the entire discussion about what consciousness is, strikes me as less interesting. Is this really more than being able to conjure up memories of past experiences?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
"It's a reasonable assumption that most women prefer to share female spaces with other women, regardless of how they look"

This is not a reasonable assumption based on my experience talking to women, and if it was, I don't understand how it would work in reality. Even if biological women preferred sharing the women's bathroom with trans men, rather than trans women, how would biological women know whether they were sharing the bathroom with a trans man or a biological man?

It seems much easier for trans men to pass than for trans women, so allowing trans men into women's bathrooms basically ensures that all men can freely enter them, claiming to be trans men.
It will not, I specifically included the F-stops for that reason.

The depth of field is determined by the focus distance and the aperture of the lens. Both remain unchanged.

Note that 35mm F/2.0 is the same aperture as 70mm F/4.0. Both lenses have an aperture of 17.5mm. (35/2.0 == 70/4.0)

You can easily verify this with your favorite zoom lens. If you have an 24-70 F/2.8 available to you, you can verify by taking 2 pictures; one at 35mm F/2.8 and one at 70mm F/5.6. Crop the 35mm one to 25% area (half the width, half the height). Render both images to the same size (print, fill screen, whatever) and see for yourself.
A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.
When I was in EE at Purdue, most of my profs also railed against the hydraulic model. It really messes you up when it comes time to get into higher frequency digital circuits (CPU designs were just starting to brush up against quantum problems at the time).
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I don’t view the US as a hostile power I view them as our closest ally.

On the other hand Musk is part of the US government now and he is out to fuck us up.

So what do we do? We live in interesting times unfortunately. We’ll just have to see what happens.
Agree. The hydraulic analogy is a good introduction to the duality that is current and voltage — as well as, to varying degree, capacitance and resistance. But then let's just stop there.

No problem.
Gives me the impression that you aren’t even allowed to play chess if you aren’t a nerd.
There are sites that will block curl and python-requests completely, but will allow curl-impersonate. IIRC, Amazon is an example that has some bot protection but it isn't "serious".
A lot of WAFs make it a simple thing to set up. Since it doesn't require any application-level changes, it's an easy "first move" in the anti-bot arms race.

At the time I wrote this up, r1-api.rabbit.tech required TLS client fingerprints to match an expected value, and not much else: https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/aafce6ba7fc49b19206...

(I haven't paid attention to what they've done since so it might no longer be the case)
My son has a dozen or so food allergies. It is exhausting.

Then, I know people with autistic kids. Wow.
"I have nothing to hide" will eventually spread to everyone. Very unfortunate.
It sounds to me like you agree with the author. They used similar wording to you by the end of their post:

> It was a major pain dealing with all the nuances of unsafe Rust.
Just fantastic pun there. Despite all HN living at the forefront of technology, we still have to appreciate a groan inducing good pun
It's not - euphemism is great for middle class dinner party conversation, but it doesn't really help. The opposite could equally be true: a family could have a house, but it's one shared with a load of other people, so it's not a home.
I meant not a jump in text generation ability, but more like adding a completely new modality and the likes. With 4o, you can have a multimodal embedding space and provide more relevant context to a model for fewer tokens (and higher accuracy). Ideally everyone would get there, but upgrading your pipeline is more about getting the latest functionality faster rather than just a slightly better generation.
My impression is that a lot of people are just hoping for everything to go to hell to the point where fundamental changes become inevitable, and they're assuming that these fundamental changes will likely be beneficial to them.

I'm not sure if this is evidence of how bad people think the status quo is, or if it is evidence of how naive most people are.
I find this interesting, and I think dates should always be included.

But I have this question- why am I interested in the date? What changes in this message when I know the date?

I feel like knowing the date sets up a conflict between "this is out of date" vs. "this is before the era of mass garbage generation" (more generously described as "with time only the classics survive)
Sounds like a power move by the FIDE to project dominance over its members and a way to control its public perception
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From the creator of How to Say It flashcards.
Play Gameboy on Terminal
Very steep price, for not much more you could get a Bambu A1 Mini and AMS
The solution for "fixing" use after free was already a thing 25 years ago in C and C++ code, hence why it is hardly an improvement in Zig.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/crt-...

https://www.parasoft.com/products/parasoft-insure/
Fortunately, they are aware of the problem and made an announcement:

>> We are aware of audio issues, especially during talks of day 1 (2024-12-27). Some talks have been released in a preview-version, but are still being worked on behind the scenes.
Is there anything stopping anyone from doing that with his designs?
Is the name a Star Trek TNG reference? https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Riva%27s_chorus
Pre-configured AI workstation for coders
I'm building a pre-built AI setup to test various LLMs and have successfully integrated it into my business. I want to share it with everyone here. This already integrates Qwen2.5-Coder 32B, Llama 3.1 70B 405B, FLUX.1 [dev] and Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B. It's highly customizable and can be used as a cloud AI, similar to Runpod when it's not in use.
Tech specs:

- AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955 WX

- 2 x RTX 4090

- 128GB RAM

- SSD NVMe 1TB
He didn’t yell or cause a scene, he broke the rule, received a punishment and explained his reasoning in an interview afterwards. That is perfectly respectable in my opinion.

Part of what makes showing up in jeans way more valuable than not showing up is how normal it seems otherwise. Show, don’t tell, basically. If you didn’t know about the rule it wouldn’t have seemed out of place at all.
No one criticized democracy, and it's not an attack on democracy to hold people with bad opinions in low regard.
> Independence limited,
Freedom of choice is made for you, my friend.

There will be no products without those “features”.
Yet nobody is making high-end plastic phones anymore. Because nobody would buy them (just like no nobody cared about replaceable batteries so all companies stopped making them).

I don’t think that the case situation is necessarily rational but people generally seem to prefer more fancy/expensive/better looking phones these days.
Sorry I meant hitting enter should NOT submit the chat. It should continue taking my input. And when I’m ready to submit I’d like to hit cmd-enter
Title reminds me of Tim Hunkin's BBC series "The Secret Life of Machines", which he's put on YouTube. There is, funnily enough, an episode on central heating systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQ9zkBzbYc

EDIT: there is of course a bit about thermostats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQ9zkBzbYc&t=1137
There are several reasons for a platform to not want to offer 3p interop, from security to privacy to competition, but the DMA is targeted EU regulation to mandate interop specifically for the big tech cos’ platforms and this is one of the first major tests of the law.
If a user wants to turn on a clearly labeled setting to share a bunch of data with Meta, it should not be Apple's role to stop them even if you and I might think that's a stupid thing to do. Android's solution for more dangerous permissions is to make the user open the settings app and pick the apps to grant it to from a list, which seems like the right amount of friction to kick people out of autopilot and make them actively decide whether that's something they want to do.

If it's anyone's job to limit how Meta can collect and use data despite the express consent of the user, it's governments, not Apple.
25 on my YubiKey. Would 100 be enough?
Is this true though? Can't you insist that the dealer or manufacturer disabled telemetry? I've wondered about if there are guides for disabling telemetry at a circuit level on various models.
This is why no one actually likes philosophers
But how much of this "bad actor" interaction is countered with tracking? And how many of these attempts are even close to successfull with even the simplest out of the box security practices set up?

And when it does get more dangerous, is over zealous tracking the best counter for this?

I've dealt with a lot of these threats as well, and a lot are countered with rather common tools, from simple fail2ban rules to application firewalls and private subnets and whatnot. E.g. a large fai2ban rule to just ban anything that attempts to HTTP GET /admin.php or /phpmyadmin etc, even just once, gets rid of almost all nefarious bot traffic.

So, I think the amount of attacks indeed can be insane. But the amount that need over zealous tracking is to be countered, is, AFAICS, rather small.
Came here to say this and glad I am not the only one. Building out an ontology seems like quite an expensive process. It would be hard to convince my stakeholders to do this.
In this case a use is being pushed by certain outlets that operate in lockstep. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's silly to pretend that it's an organic change.
What does he mean there is only one "Bluesky server" ?

You can already run your own Personal data server (for your data), Relay (to aggregate all feeds), AppView (that holds a view of the data), or client (that talks to the AppView).
Real resources humanity can access are not infinite (scientists & engineers) and economists can get their assumptions wrong (everyone, including economists).

And there is no way our current trend of oil use can be sustained for 500 years. By then our oil use will be negligible compared to what it is today unless something truly bizarre and unforseeable happens.
Dutch Supermarket chain discontinued use of AI to detect shoplifting